Dr. Melvyn Sim is Professor and Provost’s Chair at the Department of Analytics & Operations, NUS Business school. His research interests fall broadly under the categories of decision making and optimization under uncertainty with applications ranging from finance, supply chain management, healthcare to engineered systems. He is one of the active proponents of Robust Optimization and has given invited talks in this field at international conferences. Dr. Sim won second places in the 2002 and 2004 George Nicholson best student paper competition and first place in the 2007 Junior Faculty Interest Group (JFIG) best paper competition. He is also the recipient of the 2009 NUS outstanding young researcher award. Dr. Sim serves as an associate editor for Operations Research, Management Science and Mathematical Programming Computations.
Recognition & Awards
- Faculty Outstanding Researcher Award (NUS) – 2011
- University Young Researcher Award (NUS) – 2009
- First place, INFORMS Junior Faculty Interest Group (JFIG) Best Paper Competition – 2007
- Faculty Outstanding Researcher Award (NUS) – 2007
- Department Outstanding Researcher Award (NUS) – 2005
- Second place, INFORMS George Nicholson Student Paper Competition – 2004
- Second place, INFORMS George Nicholson Student Paper Competition – 2002
Educational Qualifications
- PhD, Operations Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, 2004
- S.M (HPCES), Computational Engineering, Singapore-MIT-Alliance, 2000
- M.Eng (EE), Electrical Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 1996
- B.Eng (EE), First Class Honors, Electrical Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 1995
Academic Experience
- Professor, National University of Singapore, 2012 – current
- Affiliated Researcher, NUS Risk Management Institute, 2007 – current
- Fellow, Singapore-MIT Alliance, 2005 – current
- Dean’s Chair, National University of Singapore, 2009 – 2012
- Deputy Head, Department of Decision Sciences, National University of Singapore, 2009 – 2011
- Associate Professor (with tenure), National University of Singapore, 2008 – 2011
- Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore, 2004 – 2008
Corporate Experience
- DSP Group Leader, MINDEF, 1997 – 1999
